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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 01:08:31 EDT
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>      I think one thing that gives MacWrite and Word (and emacs) an edge is
> that they work on a what-you-see-is-what-you-get sort of situation, which
> is something you don't get on Unix.  It takes away some of the frustration
> of doing the thing, discovering an error, changing something, waiting to see
> if it worked, etc.  (Vi has a slight disadvantage here; when you modify text
> you don't always see the line as it will end up until you get out of that
> mode.)

I'm composing this reply using EMACS on a UNIX system.  Furthermore, I
*wrote* an editor, which ran under UNIX, that was a WYSIWYG editor in the
sense that it showed the text, formatted as it would print (mostly - modulo
page headers, footers, footnotes, etc.), as you typed.  For that matter,
Microsoft Word is available on the AT&T PC 7300 - also known as the UNIX PC.
Several other such editors are available on UNIX systems, from fairly simple
alphanumeric terminal-based ones up to Interleaf and programs of its ilk.
Which kind of WYSIWYG did you say you don't get on UNIX?
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	Guy Harris
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